MiKTeX News
MiKTeX on Windows 7/8 deprecation
01/20/2023 11:42:12Future MiKTeX versions will not run on legacy Windows platforms. For this reason, it is necessary to [...]
MiKTeX 32-bit end-of-life
07/30/2022 13:06:09MiKTeX 32-bit support has ended which means: no future updates of the MiKTeX 32-bit binaries. Also s [...]
MiKTeX 22.3
03/17/2022 17:25:37MiKTeX 22.3 has been released on March 14, 2022. HiTeX MiKTeX now includes the HiTeX engine. Upgrade [...]
MiKTeX 22.1
02/05/2022 10:27:57MiKTeX 22.1 has been released on January 31, 2022. Fixed issues 995: Support for Fedora 35 1022: ex [...]
Log4j status
12/26/2021 11:58:19Here is a knowledge base article which describes the MiKTeX log4j status: Log4j vulnerability CVE-20 [...]
MiKTeX 21.12
12/07/2021 16:36:08MiKTeX 21.12 has been released on December 7, 2021. (e-)(u)pTeX MiKTeX now includes the four TeX eng [...]
MiKTeX 21.8
08/11/2021 11:16:39MiKTeX 21.8 has been released on August 6, 2021. Documentation browser MiKTeX Console now provides a [...]
MiKTeX 21.7
07/19/2021 17:38:53MiKTeX 21.7 has been released on July 19, 2021. Upgraded programs dvipdfmx 20210609 pdftex 1.40.23 [...]
MiKTeX 21.6.28
06/27/2021 20:47:28MiKTeX 21.6.28 has been released on June 28, 2021. Breaking changes Common TEXMF root directories in [...]
Companion packages (doc/source)
06/07/2021 11:09:54MiKTeX packages are being rearranged: documentation and source files are transferred into separate & [...]
MiKTeX 21.6
06/07/2021 09:34:02MiKTeX 21.6 has been released on June 7, 2021. Breaking changes Non-secure package repository URLs ( [...]
MiKTeX 21.3
03/25/2021 09:43:29MiKTeX 21.3 has been released on March 22, 2021. Upgraded programs axohelp 1.4 dvipdfmx 20210318 gr [...]
MiKTeX 21.2
02/22/2021 12:31:08MiKTeX 21.2 has been released on February 22, 2021. MiKTeX Console Simplified Chinese translation Th [...]
MiKTeX 21.1
01/19/2021 11:58:02MiKTeX 21.1 has been released on January 18, 2021. MiKTeX Console German translation MiKTeX Console [...]
GitHub Discussions
12/21/2020 20:44:03GitHub is rolling out a new feature called “Discussions”. I have enabled it for the MiKTeX project. [...]
MiKTeX 20.12
12/15/2020 17:22:10MiKTeX 20.12 has been released on December 14, 2020. Breaking changes Options --disable-pipes and -- [...]
MiKTeX 20.11
11/02/2020 11:36:10MiKTeX 20.11 has been released on November 2, 2020. Upgraded programs asymptote 2.67 axohelp 1.3 dv [...]
MiKTeX 20.10
10/12/2020 10:32:20MiKTeX 20.10 has been released on October 12th, 2020. Fixed issues 206: store log-files of "bu [...]
MiKTeX 20.7
08/03/2020 15:44:53MiKTeX 20.7 has been released on August 3rd, 2020. Fixed issues 576: Net Installer Crashing 581: pd [...]
MiKTeX 20.6
06/28/2020 10:08:09MiKTeX 20.6 has been released on June 28th, 2020. New release versioning scheme The MiKTeX project h [...]
2.9.7470 -> 20.6
06/01/2020 22:07:21I am planning to switch to a date-based versioning scheme for MiKTeX releases. This will take effect [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7440
05/13/2020 09:54:42MiKTeX 2.9.7420 as been released on May 17, 2020. Breaking changes Removal of Omega 1.15 Omega 1.15 [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7400
04/29/2020 12:06:39MiKTeX 2.9.7400 has been released on April 26, 2020. Fixed issues 312: MiKTeX Setup Wizard ignores [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7350
03/22/2020 19:45:25MiKTeX 2.9.7350 has been released on March 22, 2020. lualatex: switching engine from LuaTeX to LuaHB [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7300
02/06/2020 11:38:12MiKTeX 2.9.7300 has been released on February 17, 2020. Group-delimited \input argument MiKTeX adopt [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7250
11/17/2019 11:51:11MiKTeX 2.9.7250 was released on November 17, 2019. New programs LuaHBTeX 1.11.2 Upgraded programs [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7230
10/26/2019 11:49:59MiKTeX 2.9.7230 was released on October 26, 2019. Fixed macOS build issues. [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7200
10/22/2019 11:48:07MiKTeX 2.9.7200 was released on October 22, 2019. Breaking changes Windows: text files with UNIX lin [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7140
08/01/2019 11:47:21MiKTeX 2.9.7140 was released on August 1, 2019. New programs harftex: new TeX enginge with embedded [...]
Discontinuation of MiKTeX Portable SFX
05/30/2019 10:41:15Development of the MiKTeX Portable self-extracting archive will not be continued. So far, the MiKTeX [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7050
05/29/2019 11:45:29MiKTeX 2.9.7050 was released on May 29, 2019. Breaking changes --c-style-errors does not imply \scro [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.7000
04/10/2019 11:44:14MiKTeX 2.9.7000 was released on April 10, 2019. Upgraded programs dvipdfmx 20190225 dvipng 1.16 dvi [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6980
02/10/2019 11:41:59MiKTeX 2.9.6980 was released on February 10, 2019. Fixed issues 254: biber: missing on Ubuntu and M [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6960
02/03/2019 11:36:20MiKTeX 2.9.6960 has been released on February 3, 2019. Upgraded programs dvipdfmx 20190127 dvisvgm [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6930
01/09/2019 10:24:02MiKTeX 2.9.6930 has been released on January 6, 2019. Release notes Resetting personal MiKTeX config [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6880
11/12/2018 15:24:01MiKTeX 2.9.6880 is an intermediate release for Windows. It features LuaTeX 1.09 and Dvisvgm 2.6. [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6840
09/30/2018 11:12:51MiKTeX 2.9.6840 has been released on September 30, 2018. Release notes Fixed security issues CVE-201 [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6800
08/28/2018 00:00:00MiKTeX 2.9.6800 has been released on August 27, 2018. Release notes Fedora 28 & openSUSE Leap 15 [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6730
06/27/2018 00:00:00MiKTeX 2.9.6730 has been released on June 26, 2018. Release notes OS X El Capitan & macOS Sierra [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6700
05/22/2018 00:00:00MiKTeX 2.9.6700 has been released on May 21, 2018. Release notes Ubuntu 18.04 & Debian 9 MiKTeX [...]
MiKTeX Console is meant to replace old MFC applications
04/18/2018 15:36:36MiKTeX Console is now the tool of choice for most MiKTeX maintenance tasks. The classic MiKTeX deskt [...]
MiKTeX-Asymptote 2.44 now supports 3D rendering
04/18/2018 11:41:40MiKTeX for Windows now includes GLUT, an OpenGL utility toolkit. This addition enables 3D rendering [...]
LuaTeX 1.07.0 with Lua 5.3 (option)
01/29/2018 19:33:42LuaTeX 1.07.0 is now available in the MiKTeX distribution. It comes in two variants: the classic Lu [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6500
10/29/2017 18:48:27MiKTeX 2.9.6500 is a binary release which brings the following changes: Upgraded programs dvipdfmx [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6400
07/31/2017 16:09:04MiKTeX 2.9.6400 was released on July 31, 2017. It is a binary release which brings the following cha [...]
MiKTeX 2.9.6350
05/29/2017 09:43:53MiKTeX 2.9.6350 was released on May 28, 2017. It is a binary release which brings the following chan [...]
LuaTeX 1.0.0
09/29/2016 16:55:48LuaTeX 1.0.0 has been released and is now available in the MiKTeX "Next" repository. The r [...]
Major MiKTeX update on the way
12/08/2015 09:50:01The next MiKTeX update will be a major one. The executables have been rebuilt and some 3rd party com [...]
Install MiKTeX using the command line
07/06/2015 00:00:00I am pleased to announce availability of the MiKTeX Setup Utility. The MiKTeX Setup Utility is used [...]
The future of MiKTeX 2.9
10/25/2014 11:07:22Inspired by a thread on the MiKTeX mailing list, I would like to outline the future of MiKTeX 2.9. M [...]